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mbayer_59439
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Oct 15, 2010

F5 Discovery Error

Hi,     After the install of the mgt pack and license install I try to discover all my F5 10.2 devices (all same level) and get this weird error -- I tried the admin, root, and my account (admi...
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Julian_Balog_34
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Oct 19, 2010
Hi Mike,

 

 

The error you get (HTTP 401: F5 Authorization Required), shows that you may not be able to access the iControl web service interface on the F5 device. Before performing more involved iControl calls into the device, the F5 Management Pack 'pings' the iControl web-service interface availability by placing a simple call for retrieving the local system time on the F5 device. This iControl call apparently fails in your environment. Such a call would normally go through the device's authZ security layer even with guest credentials. Can you access the iControl web-service interface at all on the device? From any browser, try:

 

 

https://[user]:[password]@device_ip:443/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi (where [user] and [password] are the device credentials that you're using for discovering the F5 device)

 

 

or

 

 

https://device_ip/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi

 

 

Let me know if you get any errors, in both cases, and we'll take it from here.

 

Julian